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A strong quarter sets up VMware to double down on networking and the cloud
Virtualization software company VMware Inc. pulled off another strong quarterly showing Thursday, beating Wall Street estimates for both profits and revenues and forecasting slightly better-than-expected revenues in the current quarter. On top of that, the company, whose software allows companies to use their data center computers more efficiently by allowing multiple operating software and applications to ...
D-Wave Systems has sold its first 2,000-qubit quantum computer for $15M
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. announced Wednesday that its enormous 2000Q Quantum Computer is now generally available, and said has sold its first model for a whopping $15 million. D-Wave claims on its website that its systems are the “most advanced quantum computers in the world.” Its machines store information using “qubits,” which encode information using 0s, ...
In a twist, Ripper database aims to prevent scamming of cybercriminals
Cybercriminals are avoiding being scammed themselves thanks to the emergence of a new service called Ripper that aims to prevent fraud on underground cybercrime marketplaces. Ripper.cc, quietly launched back in June, contains information on more than 1,200 fraudsters who have cheated their fellow cybercriminals by selling fake login credentials, invalid payment card data or other items ...
IT workers overwhelmingly support net neutrality, survey finds
An overwhelming majority of information technology workers in the U.S. agree that any moves by the Donald Trump administration to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s so-called net neutrality rules will damage the industry. In fact, many believe that if the rules are overturned, it will lead to increased costs and slower upload and download speeds. ...
Microsoft reaffirms UK data center expansion plans following Brexit import tariff fears
Microsoft Corp. has published a statement reaffirming its commitment to the United Kingdom, following comments from a senior manager about the impact that potential post-Brexit hardware import tariffs might have on its plans for investing in data centers in the country. The statement came in response to a number of misleading stories suggesting that Microsoft might pull out ...
Cisco swoops in to buy AppDynamics for $3.7B, just before its IPO
So much for the first big tech IPO of 2017. Cisco Systems Inc. late Tuesday surprised investors eager to see the return of technology initial public offerings, announcing it has agreed to buy AppDynamics Inc. for $3.7 billion in cash and equity awards. The startup was still speaking to investors at noon Tuesday, according to a ...
Microsoft expands FastTrack support for Windows 10, Dynamics 365 and Teams
Microsoft Corp. said it’s expanding its FastTrack services to support Windows 10, Dynamics 365 and its upcoming Microsoft Teams collaboration software. The company is hoping that by doing so, it will help its enterprise customers to adopt those products more rapidly. “Just like FastTrack for Office 365 and EMS, FastTrack for Windows 10 and Dynamics 365 ...
Platform9 intros new managed services for application containers
Self-proclaimed “open-source-as-a-service” company Platform9 Systems Inc. is doing its bit to lighten the load of application container developers. The company has just announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes offering along with the introduction of a new, open-source, serverless framework built on the Kubernetes container orchestration tool that it claims is an alternative to ...
Microsoft adds support for SUSE Linux in latest SQL Server preview
Microsoft Corp. has announced it now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise in its latest preview of the new SQL Server. The SQL Server vNext Community Technology Preview (CTP 1.2) has just been released on Windows and Linux, ahead of a full release expected later this year. Previous releases of the database software already added support for ...
Gartner says strong growth is coming to the semiconductor industry in 2017
Analyst firm Gartner Inc. is forecasting a prosperous year for global semiconductor manufacturers, with revenues set to rise by 7.2 percent in 2017 from last year. The market could certainly do with a boost. In 2016, semiconductor revenues totaled $339.7 billion, a slight 1.5 percent increase from 2015. But Gartner said in its Semiconductor Forecast ...